Example sentences of "[noun pl] he could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while he still had legs he could run . |
| 2 | The fact that a peasant 's farm buildings were in the pueblo limited the number of cattle and hens he could keep ( it may be quite difficult to buy an egg in a town of 3,000 inhabitants ) and was one more factor inhibiting a satisfactory balance between animal and crop husbandry . |
| 3 | Yet in those eyes he could see fear . |
| 4 | She came towards him ; in her eyes he could see the dread of what was to be . |
| 5 | as if he had X-ray eyes he could visualise the metal cylinder concealed within the bag , the pointed bomb with its tail fins reclining at an angle of forty-five degrees . |
| 6 | an interim award will be made if a defender can meet the obligation either from his own funds or from funds he could dispose of at will . |
| 7 | ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand . |
| 8 | So obsessive was his craving for goals he could put us one up or one down at any minute ! |
| 9 | For many of his supporters he could do no wrong and any semblance of wrong having been done was explained as part of the ecumenical conspiracy to defeat true Protestantism . |
| 10 | Before he was twenty ( an age at which most FI drivers today are already well established in the regular line of ascent towards FI ) , Mario was racing several times a week — sometimes five races in a day — in whatever cars he could get his hands on : jalopies , sprints , three-quarter midgets , midgets . |
| 11 | The number of sales the trader could make was limited to the number of cars he could get . |
| 12 | There was no form of words he could quote to define himself or his purpose , like a lodestar or a motto an ancient family would bear on its coat of arms . |
| 13 | A touch of restraint on his horse 's reins to reduce its gallop and an extravagant sign of the cross were the best amends he could make this time for his inability to comply . |
| 14 | But Rodney replied that he wanted to work out which utensils he could improvise with and make a start on the boeuf bourguignon . |
| 15 | It had , of course , gone the way of all their parties he could remember and turned into an excuse for grown-up drinking , talk , dancing and all that cuddling and kissing stuff he inescapably associated with his mother . |
| 16 | He told me that … there were 5 sins he could remember to-day , |
| 17 | It was no longer the voices he could hear , but movement . |
| 18 | Look at Elvis , he had everything that a man could desire , looks , talent , wealth — but after he 'd eaten all the cheeseburgers he could swallow , when he got bored chasing young girls in white panties , how did he spend his time ? |
| 19 | She omitted to mention that , when they last made representations to the bookseller , Mr Pascall , he had said that he stocked the books he could sell ; and if the ladies wanted him to sell better books they should take to buying them and reading them , instead of watching television all day . |
| 20 | In a few months he could leave those rooms over the shop and the shop itself for ever . |
| 21 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 22 | ‘ If the Governor set aside four hours every day for two months he could spend a minute on each decision package , not enough time to read it , let alone make an analysis of its merits ’ ( Anthony , 1977 , p. 19 ) . |
| 23 | With his keys he could have got into any part . ’ |
| 24 | As he stood on the steps before the heavy front door and dug in his pocket for his keys he could hear the ringing of a telephone , blanked and muffled by several layers of brick and plaster . |
| 25 | He announced at the beginning of that year that ‘ if Hitler had worn a dhoti he could have mistaken his mystical approach to life for that of Mr Gandhi ’ . |
| 26 | In some areas he could plant his land with windmills . |
| 27 | The driver was apparently unfamiliar with the area , and the need to call directions forward made questions and conversation impossible ; the only responses he could get were Langstone , a promise of explanations later , and another reassurance that everything had been cleared through his office . |
| 28 | These experiences he could share with Dad Uzzell , but not with his own father . |
| 29 | Thus , if each operator learned his lines he could push the button inside his casing to make the lights flash on and off in synchronisation with the soundtrack . |
| 30 | There were after all a dozen appropriate texts he could have quoted . |